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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. Hosts Roundtable on Healthcare and Technology With U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. • November 16, 2018
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Engagement with legislators and advocates about innovation in health and technology to address critical public health issues affecting underserved communities WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 16, 2018 – Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (Otsuka), a global leader in the development of digital and traditional treatments for...
Engagement with legislators and advocates about innovation in health and technology to address critical public health issues affecting underserved communities WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 16, 2018 – Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (Otsuka), a global leader in the development of digital and traditional treatments for mental illness, together with honorary co-host U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) hosted a roundtable discussion of the expanding role of technology in the future of healthcare and its potential to break down barriers to care and support patient outcomes. The November 15th event, held in Washington, D.C., was attended by members of the Congressional Black Caucus and healthcare and technology thought leaders from Proteus Digital Health, National Medical Association, National Minority Quality Forum, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and United States Senate (staff). William H. Carson, M.D., president and CEO of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., led the conversation by discussing the innovations that are driving the future of digital medicine and healthcare. "Healthcare is moving from analog to digital. Now more than ever, patients and their families have access to tools to better manage their health," said Dr. Carson. "By working closely with legislators and technology collaborators, we are paving the way for further innovation in drug discovery and technology solutions that can improve health outcomes for people living with serious mental illnesses. Our commitment to digital medicine represents a milestone in our desire to move to a new generation of promise and possibilities." Technologies play an increasingly important role in the healthcare system to coordinate care, empower patients and providers and advance the science of medicine. These innovations have the power to transform healthcare and create a more personalized, patient-centered approach to medicine. However, they do not come without challenges, particularly as new frontiers bring questions related to patient data and privacy and ensuring access for all. Representative Watson Coleman stressed the need for Congress and innovators to collaborate on policies that will enable all communities and patients to have access to digital medicine and healthcare. "Digital medicine brings tremendous potential to connect more people to high-quality, affordable health care that is personalized to individual patient needs. From analytics to mobile and sensor technology, the promise of these advancements is evidenced by the investment we've seen in digital medicine, but as we work on bringing these products to consumers, we must also ensure we consider both privacy and access concerns," said Watson Coleman. "I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress, partners in healthcare like Otsuka, and innovators in the technology sector to connect patients with these products in ways that will improve lives." The outcomes from the roundtable will help shape actions in the next Congress and help drive the future of health innovation. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company is a global healthcare company with the corporate philosophy: "Otsuka–people creating new products for better health worldwide." Otsuka researches, develops, manufactures and markets innovative products, with a focus on pharmaceutical products to meet unmet medical needs and nutraceutical products for the maintenance of everyday health. In pharmaceuticals, Otsuka is a leader in the challenging area of mental health and also has research programs on several under-addressed diseases including tuberculosis, a significant global public health issue. These commitments illustrate how Otsuka is a "big venture" company at heart, applying a youthful spirit of creativity in everything it does. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC) is dedicated to clinical development of promising drug candidates in mental health, oncology, cardio-renal, and nephrology. Other activities include strategic planning for drug approval, marketing, and lifecycle management to maximize a product's full potential. OPDC is an indirect subsidiary of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd. headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The Otsuka group of companies employed 46,000 people worldwide and had consolidated sales of approximately USD 11.1 billion in 2017. All Otsuka stories start by taking the road less travelled. Learn more about Otsuka in the U.S. at www.otsuka-us.com and connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter at @OtsukaUS. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.'s global website is accessible at www.otsuka.co.jp/en/. Representative Watson Coleman Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman represents a diverse area of New Jersey that includes Trenton, Princeton and Plainfield. First elected in 2014, she serves on the House Committee on Homeland Security, where she is the Vice Ranking Member, and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. She is also a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls. To learn more about her work in Congress, visit watsoncoleman.house.gov.
Melanie Deck
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Dead Air offers ample evidence of a band in its prime. Marconi Union still sound vital and original, enthused by the possibilities that music has to offer. "We've never wanted to repeat ourselves," states co-founder Richard Talbot. "We've made ten albums and have been going for 17 years, but it still feels fresh. That's been…
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FIR against GCA for funds misappropriation
The GCA President and two former office-bearers are alleged to have missapropriated funds to the tune of Rs. 1 crore.
An FIR was filed today against two senior Goa Cricket Association (GCA) officials, including its president, and two former office-bearers, in connection with alleged misappropriation of Rs 1 crore, police said.
The Economic Offences Cell of Goa police registered the First Information Report against GCA president Chetan Desai, secretary Vinod Phadke, the association's former chief Dayanand Narvekar and ex-treasurer Akbar Mulla for allegedly hatching criminal conspiracy and depositing Rs one crore in a fake bank account in 2006-07, they said.
"The funds were sent by the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) to GCA as a part of subsidy to buy television sets," a senior police officer said.
As per the FIR, all the accused opened an account fraudulently in the name of GCA in a local bank and deposited the cheque.
"The accused allegedly withdrew the money for their personal gain when the cheque was realised," he said.
This is the second such case against Desai, Phadke and Mulla, who were arrested in June this year after being accused of illegally opening a bank account and withdrawing Rs 2.87 crore from it in Panaji.
Meanwhile, Mulla, who has been booked for alleged misappropriation of Rs one crore from the fund released by BCCI today claimed of a "political conspiracy behind filing of case against him."
In a bail application moved before the District and Sessions Court, Mulla contended, "He is in politics and is presently the vice president of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee and intends to contest MLA election from Shirda constituency."
Mulla in his petition further said that he is in no way connected to the crime and has been falsely implicated in the matter due to political rivalry and in order to sabotage his political career by the ruling party.
He contended that if he was arrested in the above crime, it will lead to a stigma on his political career, ruin his future prospects in business and tarnish his image in the state of Goa.
Economic Offences Wing of Goa Police has filed FIR against Mulla and others including GCA President Chetan Desai, secretary Vinod Phadke and former President Dayanand Narvekar for siphoning off Rs one crore given to the cricketing body by Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI).
The petition would be heard on December 27.
The Economic Offences Cell of Goa police registered the First Information Report against GCA president Chetan Desai, secretary Vinod Phadke, the association's former chief Dayanand Narvekar and ex-treasurer Akbar Mulla for allegedly hatching criminal conspiracy and depositing Rs one crore in a fake bank account in 2006-07, they said."The funds were sent by the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) to GCA as a part of subsidy to buy television sets," a senior police officer said.
Economic Offences Wing of Goa Police has filed FIR against Mulla and others including GCA President Chetan Desai, secretary Vinod Phadke and former PresidentDayanand Narvekar for siphoning off Rs one crore given to the cricketing body by Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI).


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Rasheim Ali Abdul Wright (born July 21, 1981) is an American-Jordanian basketball player. He is 6'4" and plays guard. In 2007, he received Jordanian citizenship. As of 2011 he played for Anibal Zahle in the Lebanese Basketball League.

National team career

2007 FIBA Asia Championship
Wright debuted at the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship a qualification to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He led his team with an average of 18.1 ppg in the said tournament, However Jordan was eliminated in the Quarterfinals thus earning them a decent 5th place finish.

2009 FIBA Asia Championship
Wright played with the Jordanian national team on the 2009 FIBA Asia Championship he led his team to reach the semifinals before losing to Iran 75-77. On the bronze medal match he helped Jordan beating Lebanon 80-66 to clinch a spot for the 2010 FIBA World Championships in Turkey.

References

External links
 Eurobasket.com profile
 RealGM profile

1981 births
Living people
2010 FIBA World Championship players
African-American basketball players
American emigrants to Jordan
American expatriate basketball people in Argentina
American expatriate basketball people in Armenia
American expatriate basketball people in Bahrain
American expatriate basketball people in Bosnia and Herzegovina
American expatriate basketball people in Georgia (country)
American expatriate basketball people in Iran
American expatriate basketball people in Jordan
American expatriate basketball people in Lebanon
American expatriate basketball people in Libya
American expatriate basketball people in Mexico
American expatriate basketball people in Morocco
American expatriate basketball people in the Philippines
American expatriate basketball people in Qatar
American expatriate basketball people in Saudi Arabia
American expatriate basketball people in Tunisia
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American expatriate basketball people in Venezuela
American men's basketball players
Atenas basketball players
Basketball players from Philadelphia
Guaiqueríes de Margarita players
Jordanian men's basketball players
Jordanian people of African-American descent
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
KK Bosna Royal players
Mahram Tehran BC players
Naturalized citizens of Jordan
Shooting guards
UDC Firebirds men's basketball players
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21st-century African-American sportspeople
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The storm 'Leslie', which passed this Saturday off Madeira, is also leaving marks on the Golden Island.
The strong swell that is felt in Porto Santo is transforming the Ponta da Calheta which, in the space of 24 hours, looks different.
The waves dragged a heap of rocks to the sandy beach of that iconic beach.
The video shows the strong ripple that is felt this afternoon in Porto Santo. A scenario that has already led the city to close the city's wharf as a precautionary measure.


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June 2012, No 31
Editors: Vera Ebels, Christina Zorich
Books In print towards ARROW & Europeana – BIPTOW
Romanian Solidarity with Banned Chinese Writers
José Cadalso in the service of truth – review
Danilo Kiš The Lute & the Scars – review
Books In Print towards ARROW and Europeana – BIPTOW
In cooperation with partners in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, CEEBP has developed a project aimed at creating self-sustainable, publicly accessible online Books In Print catalogues that will be inter-operable with the "Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana" (in short, "ARROW towards Europeana").
There are still no Books In Print in Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia, while those that do exist in the Czech Republic, Serbia, and Romania need to be modernised and made inter-operable with the ARROW system, which facilitates rights information management necessary for The European Library and Europeana.
The BIPTOW project will introduce standards, improve the quality and quantity of book metadata, enhance the use of Books In Print among publishers, booksellers, libraries and the public, and foster cooperation between Books In Print and ISBN offices/National Libraries.
The focus of the project is to establish best practices in the compiling and processing of book metadata, developing viable, self-sustainable Books In Print in accordance with the required standards, and embedding the Books In Print in the book sector in partner countries.
Books In Print is of utmost importance for the book trade, and an indispensable source of data for ARROW and Europeana. The project thus paves the way for the implementation of ARROW, and for increasing the number of books digitalised within The European Library (TEL) and Europeana in these countries.
New features functional to the ARROW system for The European Library and Europeana will assist in copyrights maintenance, and enhance the transparency of the book market.
Books In Print online catalogues provide up-to-date information about books published with ISBN in a given country that are available on the market. Here the public can find book summaries and authors' biographies, book reviews, interviews, and news from the book market with links to the national and international press and blogs. Books In Print attracts many thousands of visitors.
For publishers, Books In Print is an essential instrument for the presentation of their books, authors, and their publishing house at a central spot in the cultural world.
For the news media, it provides links to their book reviews, interviews with authors, and news and other book related articles on their websites, in short, an extra exposure.
For booksellers and librarians,it is an up-to-date source of information that makes the selection and acquisition of new books easier and faster, an indispensable device to find the books their customers need, and a time-saving overview all in one place.
For teachers, students, journalists and the general public, Books In Print forms an invaluable source of information about books, authors, book launches, and bookshops and libraries in their vicinity, all in a hub.
Due to the inclusion of data about the original language of the book and the language of the book edition, first introduced in the Romanian Infocarte, the Books In Print developed within the project will allow the tracking and monitoring of translations and compiling of translation statistics.
The project is based on 3 years of partial support for the initial investment, and direct running costs of compiling, checking, and editing the metadata, training, coaching, and sharing best practices from earlier CEEBP Books In Print projects, ARROW Plus, The European Library, the International ISBN Agency, and other experts.
Project partners are the Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers, the Hungarian Magyar Books In Print Ltd., the Romanian Books In Print Infocarte.ro, the Serbian Books In Print KnjigaInfo.com (MCMost), the Slovak Association of Publishers and Booksellers (recently merged with the Index Association of Independent Publishers), the Slovak Literary Information Centre, the Slovenian UMco (Bukla book review), the Dutch Foundation for Literature, and CEEBP.
In May 2012, CEEBP submitted the project proposal to the Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Program of the European Commission.
Prior to the London Book Fair in April this year, to which China was invited as the "market focus" country, PEN International urged discussion of Chinese literature and censorship at the Book Fair. Exiled Chinese authors – not to mention imprisoned or otherwise persecuted writers in China – were not invited by either the Book Fair or the British Council and thus could not enter the Fair premises. According to the banned Chinese poet Yang Lian, who lives in London, "countries are becoming companies". Remembering only too well what it means to live under a communist dictatorship, staff at the Romanian stand offered space to the banned writers for a meeting.
One of the exiled dissident Chinese writers, Ma Jian, banned in China since 1987, said: "We don't object to the writers who are invited, but until all of us are free to speak and write no Chinese writer is free." According to Ma Jian, the Chinese state uses writers "as pawns in their political games", and "high profile events such as the Olympics and international book fairs have helped legitimise China's totalitarian state, giving it the international stamp of approval it craves, and allowing it to clamp down with greater force on critical voices back at home." The persecution of dissident writers and human rights activists has only increased since 2008, when China was the focus country at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The writer Murong Xuecun told The Guardian during the book fair: "Instead of just relying on violence to keep writers in line, the authorities have the added option of buying them. So, they buy some of them, arrest a few others, and ignore the rest."
Speaking during the meeting at the Romanian stand, the President of PEN International, John Ralston Saul, pointed out that more than a hundred human rights defenders have been detained or harassed, and thirty-five Chinese authors are in prison, some for many years.
Sources: Richard Lea: Is the London Book Fair supporting Chinese censorship? (The Guardian 13 April 2012), Jonathan Mirsky: Bringing Censors to the Book Fair (The New York Review of Books blog 18 April 2012; print version 24 May 2012), and PEN International.
José Cadalso in the service of truth
Written between 1768 and 1774, Cartas Marruecas (Moroccan Letters) were only published in 1789, six years after José Cadalso's death. A soldier who did not believe in war, Cadalso seems not to have believed in what was to become one of his most famous books either.
Following Montesquieu's model, Cadalso tries to find "exoticism" in his own country, and his Letters are not only an attempt to describe Spain through the eyes of a foreigner, but also an attempt to reach into the depths of the truth. However, the truth revealed in this book is not only multilayered, but evasive, too, as none of the three correspondents is completely reliable. Gazel, the Moroccan diplomat assigned to Spain, who (too) often borrows his Spanish friend's opinions, is characterized as rather ingenuous. And this description is made by none other than the main addressee of his letters, Ben-Beley, his adoptive father and master.
As Gazel tries to decipher the Spain of his times, he addresses a wide variety of subjects, from courtship and women's status to fashion and luxury, industry, agriculture and the army, but the main themes are national identity, education, and the pursuit of a virtuous life. Ranging from irony to satire or meditation, the letters, no matter how varied the subjects, add up to a plea for moderation – although sometimes with peremptory arguments.
At some point, Gazel is confused about the difference between the Spanish and foreign accounts of the conquest of Mexico, but Nuño, his friend, is there, ready to help, and although at first he recommends a mature reflection, he hurriedly dismisses all accusations, condemning the countries that denounce Spain's cruelty of being engaged in the slave trade. Still, the 21 pro-Hernán Cortés arguments that follow are actually undermined by his statement, if only because Spain's American colonies were a profitable destination for slaveholders.
Cadalso's intention surely must have aimed at putting forward some reforms necessary in the Spain of his time. All of the 90 letters are a statement of radical humanism and a plea for a critical approach. As one of the most important authors of the Spanish Enlightenment, Cadalso was too original to follow Montesquieu's model strictly. If the French author's Introduction projected a modest translator, the Introduction to Morrocan Letters shows someone who candidly confesses that his ego would be badly hurt if he accepted the humble role of editor, sabotaging at the same time the very convention of authenticity implied by publishing the letters received from a late friend. At the end of a hilarious argument, he even claims that he is the author of the letters to follow – and he does so in the name of the truth, which he has always worshiped, even when he saw it "tied to the chariot of the triumphant lie".
Cadalso seems to have learned well Cervantes' lesson, and, with or against his will, one of his book's merits, besides its cultural and literary value, is that it questions truth, objectivity, and nationalism.
Florentina Hojbota
Danilo Kiš The Lute & the Scars
If you have never read anything by the novelist, short story writer, poet and translator Danilo Kiš (1935-1989), one of the most important literary voices to come out of the former Yugoslavia and indeed 20th century Eastern Europe, then Lauta i oziljci (The Lute and the Scars) is a good place to start.
The short stories presented in this slim volume, published posthumously in Belgrade in 1994, were written between 1980 and 1986. They are, in so many ways, a continuing dialogue with his earlier works. Best known for his collections of short stories A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (1976) and The Encyclopedia of the Dead, (1983), Kiš had intended to include in the latter the first four stories that appear in The Lute and the Scars, but he eventually discarded them and only now have they seen the light of day.
Of Jewish Hungarian and Montenegrin descent, Kiš's writing reflects the complex Central and East European world he hailed from. Interested in hidden histories, he mixes fact and fiction, documented figures as characters and the power of the imagination. Many of the stories in The Lute and the Scars contain elements of the biographical and autobiographical. Apatrid ("The Stateless") is about a writer without a country (based on Ödön von Horváth), the eponymous Jurij Golec is a suicidal Auschwitz survivor (based on the Ukrainian Jewish writer Piotr Rawitz though it is also worth remembering that Kiš's father died in Auschwitz). In the title story of this collection, Kiš evokes his own student days in Belgrade, the room he rented from Russian émigrés, the cafés he frequented. In the late 1940s the main character in The Poet is sent to prison for his metaphors about Tito and the Party. The Nobel Prize-winning writer Ivo Andrić inspires The Debt. The last two-part prose piece, A. and B., subtitled "The Magical Place" and "The Worst Rat-hole I Visited", evokes the coastal town of Kotor and Montenegro where he went to school and grew up.
These stories highlight the on-going dilemma between love and death and between death and writing. In a world of oppressive regimes and political exile, they raise the question of death as a voluntary symbolic act versus writing as the only possible means of survival.
For the anti-nationalist Kiš, who lived the last years of his life in "Joycean exile" in Paris, his home was the world. And yet the reader can detect a certain wistfulness in the stories in The Lute and the Scars – for the land that he came from and for his language.
Christina Pribichevich-Zorić
In March 2012, the CEEBP awarded sixteen grants for books. Eleven grants were awarded for West – East translations, four for East – East translations, and one for a translation from the Arabic. Eleven of the grants for books concern works in the humanities, five are titles in belles letters.
Fourteen of the sixteen grants were awarded with the support of the Allianz Cultural Foundation, Berlin.
Walter Benjamin, Moskauer Tagebuch (with a preface by Gershom Scholem and annotations by Gary Smith), German – Polish translation by Bogdan Baran, Aletheia, Warszawa
Hassan Blasim, Madżnun Sahat al-Hurijja (The Madman of Freedom Square), Arab – Polish translation by Agnieszka Piotrowska, Biuro Literackie, Wrocław
Boris Buden, Zone des Übergangs. Vom Ende des Postkommunismus, German – Romanian translation by Maria-Magdalena Anghelescu, Tact, Cluj-Napoca
E.M. Cioran, La Chute dans le temps and De l'inconvénient d'être né, French – Bulgarian translation by Krassimir Petrov, Fakel Express, Sofia
Ivan Čolović, Balkan – terror kulture, Serbian – Macedonian translation by Ljupka Hristova-Bashevska, Slovo, Skopje
Timothy Garton Ash, The File: A Personal History, English – Bulgarian translation by Marin Zagorchev, Fama, Sofia
Claudio Magris, Microcosmi, Italian – Albanian translation by Viola Adhami, Aleph, Tirana
Franz Neumann, Behemoth. The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933 – 1944, English – Croatian translation by Damjan Lalović, Disput, Zagreb
Joseph Nye, Power in the 21st Century, English – Serbian translation by Alen Bešić and Igor Cvijanović, Arhipelag, Belgrade
Taras Prokhasko, NeprOsti (The UnSimple), Ukrainian – Czech translation by Jekaterina Gazukina and Alexandra Stelibská, Pavel Mervart, Červený Kostelec
Petro Rykhlo, Shibbolet: Essays on Jewish-German Poetry of Bukovina, Ukrainian – Polish translation by Anna Chłopik and Paweł Jarosz, Austeria, Kraków
Eginald Schlattner, Rote Handschuhe, German – Hungarian translation by Zsuzsa Fodor, Koinónia, Cluj-Napoca
Hagen Schulze, Staat und Nation in der europäischen Geschichte, German – Polish translation by Dorota Lachowska, Warsaw University Press, Warszawa
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, English – Czech translation by Petruška Šustrová, Paseka, Praha
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, English – Serbian translation by Lazar Macura, Službeni glasnik, Beograd
Serhiy Zhadan, Hymn of the Democratic Youth and Depeche mode, Ukrainian – Bulgarian translation by Albena Stamenova and Rayna Kamberova, Paradox, Sofia
BOOKS PUBLISHED WITH CEEBP SUPPORT in 2012
Ivan Čolović, Etno. Priče o muzici sveta na Internetu (Ethno: The Story of World Music on the Internet), translated from Serbian into Polish by Magdalena Petryńska: Etno. Opowieści o muzyce świata w Internecie, Borderland, Sejny 2012
Christopher R. Browning, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp, translated from English into Polish by Hanna Pustuła-Lewicka: Pamięć przetrwania. Nazistowski obóz pracy oczami więźniów, Czarne, Wołowiec 2012
José Cadalso, Cartas marruecas, translated from Spanish into Polish by Barbara Sławomirska: Listy marokańskie, Sagittarius, Wadowice 2012
Julio Cortázar, Cuentos completos, translated from Spanish into Serbian by Aleksandra Mančić: Sabrane priche (2 vols), Službeni glasnik, Beograd 2012
Miljenko Jergović, Inšallah, Madona, inšallah, translated from Croatian into Belarusian by Siarhej Šupa: Inšallah, Madona, inšallah. Apavyadannya, Kolas, Minsk 2012
Danilo Kiš, Lauta i ožiljci (The Lute and the Scars), translated from Serbo-Croatian into Bulgarian by Zhela Georgieva: Lyutiya i belezi, Fama, Sofia 2012
Olivier Roy, L'Islam mondialisé, translated from French into Albanian by Aleko Minga: Globalizimi i islamit, Botimet IDK, Tirana 2012
Serhiy Zhadan, Anarchy in the UKR, translated from Ukrainian into Belarusian by Aleh Zhlutka: Anarchy in the UKR, Kovcheg, Minsk 2012
Books published with CEEBP support in 2011 received in 2012
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (revised edition), translated from English into Romanian by Horia Târnovanu: O teorie a dreptâţii, Editura Universitâţii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iaşi 2011
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AFC Championship Point Spread: Chiefs Now a Home Dog
If you follow the money, all of the early action on the AFC Championship has been on the Cincinnati Bengals, who are now the betting favorite with a point spread of -2.5. The Kansas City Chiefs are a home underdog at +2.5 after the public reacted to Patrick Mahomes' ankle injury.
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow surveys the defense from the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 13 at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. (Image: USA Today Sports)
The #1 Chiefs host the #3 Bengals at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on Sunday. It's a rematch of last year's AFC championship when the Bengals upset the Chiefs and secured a trip to Super Bowl LVI.
The Bengals were +7 underdogs in last year's AFC championship and won outright, 27-24, in a thrilling overtime victory.
The Bengals defeated the Chiefs during the regular season. They met in Week 13 in Cincinnati, and the Bengals prevailed as +2.5 home dogs.
In the last 52 AFC championship games, the favorite is 38-14 straight up, but only 30-21-1 against the spread (ATS).
The Chiefs were the betting favorite in the last four AFC championships, and they went 2-2 overall and 2-2 ATS.
The Bengals have a 13-5 ATS record as one of the best betting teams in the NFL this season. The Chiefs won 14 games in the regular season, but they were one of the worst teams at covering the point spread. Including the postseason, the Chiefs are just 6-11-1 ATS.
Path to the AFC Championship
The Chiefs had a first-round bye as the top seed in the AFC. They defeated the #4 Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC divisional round, 27-20, to lock up a fifth-straight berth in the AFC championship. The Chiefs won but failed to cover the -9.5 point spread.
Mahomes suffered a high ankle sprain in the first quarter but finished the game despite a brief stint from backup quarterback Chad Henne. Mahomes is expected to start against the Bengals in the AFC championship. He had this injury a couple of seasons ago and played through the pain, though his mobility was impacted.
The #3 Bengals squared off against an AFC North division rival in the first round. They hosted the #6 Baltimore Ravens, who put up a good fight without starting quarterback Lamar Jackson in the lineup. The Bengals won 24-17, but didn't cover the -7.5 point spread.
In the AFC divisional round, the Bengals went on the road and beat the #2 Buffalo Bills. The Bengals prevailed 27-10 despite the fact it was snowing the entire game, which typically provides the Bills with an edge since they're used to playing in blustery conditions due to "lake effect" snow. As a +6 underdog, the Bengals beat the spread when they won outright.
AFC Championship Early Line Movement
On Sunday night, oddsmakers installed the Chiefs as a slight favorite over the Bengals in the AFC championship with a point spread of -2. Early bettors jumped on the Bengals as a road underdog. The line quickly moved a full point by Monday morning.
Money continued to get bet on the Bengals over the last 24 hours. On Tuesday morning, the Bengals were the consensus favorites by two whole points at -2 before another line adjustment. The Bengals are a -2.5 favorite shortly before noon in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
For a hot minute, Caesars in Las Vegas adjusted the line with the Bengals a favorite at -3. That line didn't last long before bettors jumped on the Chiefs at +3, and oddsmakers at Caesars moved the AFC championship point spread back to +2.5
At most sportsbooks in Las Vegas, the Chiefs are moneyline home dogs at +115, while the Bengals are -135 as the moneyline favorite. If you want to shop for the best number on the Chiefs right now, the SuperBook updated the Chiefs at +130 on the moneyline, and the South Point Casino in Las Vegas has the Chiefs at +120.
The overall points total in the game opened at 47.5 over/under on Sunday evening. Bettors jumped on the points under, and oddsmakers adjusted to the public's reaction to Mahomes' injury. The total is currently 46.5 o/u.
Philadelphia Eagles Now the Super Bowl Favorite
The NFC championship game is also on Sunday, when the #1 Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) host the #2 San Francisco 49ers (13-4). The Eagles are a -2.5 favorite in a game featuring the top two seeds in the NFC.
The Eagles are now the outright favorite to win Super Bowl LVII at +245 odds, according to DraftKings. The Chiefs and Bengals are second co-favorites at +265 odds. The Chiefs were co-favorites with the Eagles on Sunday night, but the line slightly moved in favor of the Eagles.
The 49ers are the long shot on the futures board at +330 odds with only four teams remaining in the hunt to win the Super Bowl.
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Walking/running and bicycle paths are mostly segregated separating runners from cyclists. Signs are established throughout the course identifying which paths runners should be on. Runners must obey all signs and not run on designated bicycle only paths.
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Teams are able to organize their team member's legs in any configuration they want. You can run any or all transition legs – for variety! However ALL transitions must take place at the start/finish line which is located in front of the Riverside Green. Depending on which route is run (Green or Yellow) you can transition at 5km or 10km intervals only.
It is the responsibility of the teams to monitor their own transitions and total distance. Whilst we will monitor that 100km is completed it is ultimately the responsibility of the team to map out who is running which routes and coordinate their members to be ready to take over each transition.
All runners registered as individual runners i.e. not in teams will have their times recorded via a micro chip system.
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However this is up to each individual team to coordinate. Obviously you will all want to be there to run the last 5km together as a team. A BBQ and presentation will take place soon after 3pm.


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A car accident is something no one wants to happen so people are always careful when traveling. Accidents will certainly cause serious injury to drivers. Nobody wants this to happen to themselves. However, for what people cannot do, they become more curious. It is like the feeling of stimulation in the face of danger that makes people always interested in adventure games. Turbo Dismount is also a type of adventure game that mimics the way vehicles crashed. Accidents that you cannot see in real life will appear in the game. It's like you're in a racing game, but instead of avoiding obstacles, you dive into them. Actually, this game makes the view of the player with a game of media control different.
The unique content, rather than graphics
This game is extremely unique and gives players a kind of stimulation than racing games a lot. You do not need to avoid anything. Bump into whatever you want, destroying everything you can. On the contrary, this sabotage brings great interest to players. However, the graphics of the game are not too beautiful but only focus on real physical simulation. This means that everything in the game is not designed to resemble real life. They're just models, like when you get your driver's license test. However, the collisions it creates are real.
Perform death-defying motor stunts
This means that if an accident occurs, make sure it is the same as what Turbo Dismount simulates for you. The game only brought a burst of smoke, cars, and terrain shattered, and it also indicated the places where people would be injured if the collision occurred. It has no gore because in the game the main character is a dummy, not a human. Feel free to play, regardless of the element of gore or violence. That is why it is suitable for all ages. Parents can play this game with their children to educate them about traffic safety. They can show them the consequences of careless transportation.
The atmosphere is lively, and the game temperature is agile
First, you must understand that this is a game created for entertainment and stress relief. Remember that you used to use a lot of different tools to damage your computer screen? It was an old game that was common on Windows XP about 10 years ago. Games like this main focus on the level of destruction that players can cause to help them release stress. "Turbo Dismount ™" does not require you to score or do anything. You simply control a car and cause the greatest destructive level you can think of. In the process that you create such damage, it is necessary to push the speed of the vehicle to the maximum. The higher the speed, the more severe the damage.
The sound of the game is also one of the biggest factors that makes it so attractive. Every time you bump into any material, it will produce different sounds. Reality has shown you that no two collisions produce the exact same sound. Even the fact that you bump into obstacles from different angles creates different sound frequencies. Thanks to that, the atmosphere in the game is always exciting.
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The Game Awards 2019 to feature around 15 brand new game announcements
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Wonder if the new games overlap with Sony's State of play?
The Game Awards 2019 to feature 'around 10 brand new game announcements' [Update: More than 10, possibly 15]
Show to run about two-and-a-half hours.
The Game Awards 2019 will feature around 10 new game announcements, awards show creator Geoff Keighley said in a Reddit AMA.
"We have a bunch of brand new games being announced at the show—I think there are around 10 new games / projects being revealed if you want to count the things that no one has heard about yet," Keighley said in response to a question about how many reveals to expect at the show. "As always the internet has a lot of really bad information out there about what you think is at the show… but it sure is fun to read."
One of those announcements was previously confirmed to be the debut title from developer Wolfeye Studios, which was established by former Arkane Studios directors.
Keighley also confirmed that recently leaked Resident Evil 3 remake is not one of the announcements.
"There are no plans (never were) to do anything with Resident Evil 3 at the show," Keighley said. "A lot of these 'leaks' are completely wrong. Nothing about our show has leaked as of this writing."
Asked if there are "any reveals that will surprise the hell out of everyone watching" or "any trailers for games people have been waiting forever for," Keighley replied, "Dangerous questions! I'm not sure, everyone reacts differently to things. We're just trying to make the best show we can based on the content available to us!"
The Game Awards 2019 will broadcast live on December 12 at 5:30 p.m. PT / 8:30 p.m. ET via YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, Facebook, Twitter, and various other platforms. According to Keighley, it will run about two-and-a-half hours. View the nominees here.
Update 12/06/19 at 7:10 p.m.: Speaking in a newly posted Twitter video, Keighley said, "there's more than 10 new games being announced, I think there's actually 15 or something."
https://gematsu.com/2019/12/the-game...-announcements
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And most of them are indie games as usual.
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Meh, Even if they are all indie some of them will probably be more interesting than 90% of AAA titles so I'm still pretty excited to see what shows up.
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Veterans of Filipino Ancestry in the
Library of Congress Veterans History Project
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/bib/loc.natlib.afc2001001.10813
Severo Guerrero Collection
Severo K. Guerrero, Jr.
Pontiac, MI
Home State:
War or Conflict:
World War II, 1939-1946
Dates of Service:
Unit of Service:
9901st TSU-SGO Detachment, Medical Corps
Location of Service:
Philippines; Camp Lee, Virginia; Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC; Camp Detrick, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois
Highest Rank:
Prisoner of War:
Service Related Injury:
Service History Note:
Veteran, a United States (US) citizen by birth, resided in the Philippines during World War II. From 1941-1945, he was active as a Filipino-American Guerrilla, fighting against the Japanese Occupation. He returned to the US in mid-1945, was drafted into the US Army, then on 12/12/1945 he enlisted into the regular Army so he could pursue his medical studies at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.
Manuscript: Creative works [1 item]
Manuscript: Memoirs [1 item]
Audio: Audio Cassette [1 item] --Oral history interview
Audio: CD [0 item] --Reference copy
Unknown Interviewer
Donor Affiliation/Organization:
Freemont Junior High School
Collection #:
AFC/2001/001/10813
Guerrero, Severo
World War II, 1939-1946 -- Personal Narratives
United States. Army.
Severo Guerrero Collection (AFC/2001/001/10813), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Jose Montealegre Collection
Jose Montealegre
This interview was conducted by Veterans History Project volunteers on the National Mall in Washington, DC during the National World War II Reunion: Tribute to a Generation, May 27-30, 2004. Interviews in this group range from one minute to 25 minutes in length. Montealegre was born in the Philippines.
Entrance into Service:
Montealegre was originally in the Philippine Army. He was then incorporated into the United States Army.
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Montealegre, Jose
Prisoner of War (POW)
Jose Montealegre Collection (AFC/2001/001/13902), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress


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I don't normally just put a music post up here but I'm curious to know what you might think of Angel Haze.
I first saw her on last year's Glastonbury TV footage, with just one acoustic song ('Battle Cry'), which we recorded along with a load of other stuff. We weren't familiar with her but Mr SDS and I are open-minded to something different. We liked it but didn't really think too much more about it until playing it back some time later, when there was something about the acute conviction of her performance that reeled us in and the song itself stayed with us both. Later still Mr SDS investigated a couple of other tracks online which sounded good. So, last week, he bought the album 'Dirty Gold'.
I was out on the day that it arrived in the post. When I got back home, I asked him if he'd played it and how he liked it. "I'm knackered," he replied. "It's so intense, I feel like I've been through it. But in a good way..." It's a while since anyone's album has done that to either of us. It used to be the case with, oh let me think.. Joy Division... Crass... Babes In Toyland. You know the kind of thing, when a collection of tracks are so angry, angsty, personal, sad, confessional or whatever, that you feel a little drained when it's all over.
It would be easy to define Angel Haze by her rapping, and equally easy to perhaps think, "But I don't like rap so I won't like this" but there's so much more to this than her obvious talent for articulating rhyming couplets at high speed. The varied and often lush instrumentation throughout the album, her sweeter melodic vocals that complement the harder edges, some ethereal effects and an evident lack of compromise (which I fear may not be so evident in time if marketing types get their way) put me more in mind of Neneh Cherry, Tricky, Massive Attack. Then on reading about her and appreciating her quite shocking background I can understand why listening to the album has the effect it does, and that that's no bad thing.
Here's an interview from The Guardian which explains a little more.
I must commend my husband on his latest purchase!
Angel Haze: Dirty Gold (from the album Dirty Gold)
Angel Haze: Deep Sea Diver (from the album Dirty Gold)
Angel Haze: acoustic performance of Battle Cry, Glastonbury 2014
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One of the lovely and unexpected things that has happened since I signed with an agent a couple of years ago has been the amount of work I've had from overseas publishers. Since then I've worked mostly with American clients, as well as Korean and Australian, and I don't know why they should turn to a UK agent nor wish to source UK illustrators but I'm very happy that they do. So if there's one thing that Britain does appear to be quite good at, it's in the provision of artists!
Today I'm particularly happy as I've just had confirmation of a book deal with a publisher from somewhere I know absolutely nothing about: Slovenia. It's great news in itself and will keep me busy until Spring next year, but the thought of working for Slovenians has really excited me too. Perhaps it's no surprise then that it's piqued my curiosity and I've spent a little time this week reading up about the place and the people.
Slovenia, like so much of Europe it seems, places great importance on the arts and even has a Cultural Holiday named after one of its poets, Prešeren Day. It's home to several hugely talented illustrators. I love these exquisitely atmospheric paintings by Marlenka Stupica...
and the darker, intricate and quite haunting work by Arlenka Sottler
as well as the simplistic, humorous images by one of the country's most popular children's book illustrators, Lila Prap:
Slovenia is also the land which gave us the band Laibach.
I guess Laibach must be the country's most well-known musical offering, so I delved a bit deeper and found something else, a rapper called N'toko (real name Miha Blažič). This isn't my normal cup of tea at all but I found it oddly quite charming at the same time and I've posted it here for the video as much as anything else - for the Slovenian street scenes and characters.
Plus, if you like spuds, as I do, Slovenia has something special. There is an annual Festival of Roasted Potatoes, organised by the wonderfully named Society For The Recognition Of Roasted Potatoes As A Distinct Dish. How good is that?
Labels: illustration, n'toko, slovenia
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They say it's possible for a man to 'laugh' a woman into bed. So, to test that theory out, I met up with three different men and set them the challenge, without their knowing. Looks didn't come into it, for these three men happened to be identical triplets.
Ok, so it's far-fetched, but please feel free to imagine. These three identical triplets each had one special thing about them. The first had a truly amazing car. The second one had an incredibly massive... oh, I don't know... shall we say, for the sake of argument, stamp collection? (But I know what you were thinking.) And the third had a really great sense of humour. Their dad, a funny philatelist who drove an E-type Jag, was unfortunately out of the picture.
Triplet Number One smelled too much of Autoglym and the way that Triplet Number Two kept licking his lips was really off-putting. However, Triplet Number Three had me chuckling with his naughty innuendo, his inventively twisted perspective on the world, his linguistic prowess and his imaginative flights of fancy and I realised that, in loving his sense of humour I was also loving the way his mind worked and it felt good. You may wish to return to reality here rather than imagine the outcome, but I bet you still know what it would be: out of the three of them it'd be Triplet Number Three who'd most likely eventually have me, ahem, rolling on the floor.
Why should a sense of humour be so potent? By humour I don't just mean the memorising and re-telling of jokes, which can, on the contrary, be a huge turn-off in the wrong hands – it's a dry wit, wordplay and the abstract which works its magic on me. Apart from getting off on laughter-induced endorphins, I find myself feeling a huge sense of affection for someone who can make me giggle. I adore the fact that it displays a creative mind and, if the humour is a little edgy, there's something thrilling, maybe even a tad dangerous, about it too. With those feel-good chemicals already producing a legal high, it's not hard to see why it's so attractive. That's whether you're male or female... whoever you are, if I admire your wit, then I'm more than likely going to admire you too.
Anyway, I was reading about the 'laughing into bed' thing, and the scientific theories behind it. Well, if it's true, it's due to all that evolutionary stuff about women being choosier than men in finding a mate (mainly because women undertake the risky bits in procreation, have a limited reproduction span and need someone who'll stick around and support them in bringing up the sprogs - you know the sort of thing.). In spite of what it looks like on Jeremy Kyle, us women are subconsciously seeking out successful and intelligent men to father our little brats and ensure their well-being.. A good sense of humour is an indicator of intelligence... one that's hard to fake... and because it's an interactive quality, it requires emotional and social intelligence too. If he's got those attributes, then, theoretically, he's more likely to succeed in life generally... and we're more likely to want to have his babies. There's more to it too, apparently - that men tend to instinctively develop their sense of humour to a greater degree than women do and use it competitively to make an impression (even if not consciously...)
So, could Triplet Number Three really have his wickedly witty way on the strength of his humour? Or... hmm... would it just be down to his tickling stick?
Labels: humour
A box of singles came into our possession recently via Mr SDS' uncle. It was this uncle who, as a 19-year old, first introduced the very young Mr SDS to music and his copies of Melody Maker around 1965. But that's Mr SDS' story, not mine, and may one day be told in more detail in another blog if I could ever convince him to write one, which seems unlikely.
Is this a tantalising image, though? Are you perhaps eager to know what gems might be in here? Feeling the anticipation, even from that distance? Enlarging the photo and straining to identify each record company sleeve, teasing yourself with the thought of what it might contain? (Maybe you're the kind who notices that there's a CD rack in the background of a scene on a TV programme and turns their head sideways to try and read the spines?)
I was reminded of those responses on reading a post over at the excellent blog Feel It which took me back to the days when we used to go to Record Fairs quite frequently. Flicking through this box of old 45s brought it all back too.
It seemed like it was every weekend in the early '80s that we'd take the train down to London for a Record Fair but I think that's my memory taking liberties. Anyway, we went to quite a few. I grew tired of it long before Mr SDS did, but it probably didn't help when I started a full-time job in a record shop, seguing my work time and leisure time just a little too much (as well as working every Saturday). Still, for a while they were exciting. I remember how resilient we had to be, prepared to search through every suitable box and crate, tirelessly and hopefully. Frequently the promise was matched only by the disappointment, but you had to keep looking – how could you pass by a box of singles and not look?!
The Record Fairs we went to always seemed to be held in somewhat downmarket hotels - maybe they still are; I wouldn't know. But I can picture them now: large function rooms with burgundy patterned carpets, scuffed woodchip walls... smoke and dust caught in rays of sunshine coming through a window in the dingy bar area... that particular breed of dealer with the greasy comb-over wearing a conker-brown cardigan, resting his not-insubstantial beer belly against the trestle table. We got to know the good ones and the not-so-good, the pleasant and the patronising. We got used to rifling through crates of albums in dusty plastic outer sleeves with corners that cut our fingers. The hand-written indices and barely decipherable price stickers. That smell - the smell of vinyl! Cigarette smoke too... body odour... coffee... mildew... fried breakfasts. Fried breakfasts? I don't know why I'm getting this memory of the smell of egg and bacon, but it's there nonetheless. And punters all but salivating... over boxes and boxes and boxes of vinyl.
Anyway, what was in the uncle's box? I'm sure you're dying to find out.
Well, it was just the usual Elvis, Beatles and the Rolling Stones....etcetera...
Labels: 1950s, 1960s, record fairs, records
Last week the charms of Ipswich lured me to its heart once again. I may be exaggerating. Anyway, I decided to give myself a day off and my friend there was at a loose end, so I hopped on a double decker bus and travelled the highways and byways of * 'Silly Suffolk' to its county town to meet him for lunch.
Now I didn't take my camera this time, so you're just going to have to imagine things. Like the road that's about halfway between here and Ipswich which goes by the wonderfully evocative name of Wilderness Hill. If you know East Anglia, you'll know that hills are not our most prevalent feature, nor is our countryside particularly wild (although Stowmarket town centre on a Saturday night may come close). A more apt name might be Mild Bump.
After an hour of flat fields punctuated by mild bumps, Ipswich comes into view. I'm looking out for the house I saw last time with its sinister message to 'KEEP AHHT!' Ah, there it is! This time I notice more detail. There's a boarded up window to the side and more writing. It says
GAURD DO
It's just a wild guess but... d'you reckon the literary genius concerned had run out of paint? Or did they just run out (on hearing the sirens)? Either way one can presume that they uttered a few expletives like "flipping heck" before returning to their flower-arranging, safer in the knowledge that neither they nor their 'GAURD DO' would be disturbed. And I've just had to 'correct' the auto-correct for the second time as I spelt that.
Some graffiti on the side of another nearby building has a more positive message. Taking up the whole space, in letters that must be at least a foot high, are the words
I LOVE M ?
The question mark made me smile. Is it there to tease... to tease every Michelle or Mary or Mark who walks by, to wonder if it's for them? Or is it a desperate expression of mixed feelings? "Erm, I think I love M but, I'm a little put off because they've got terrible spelling and a bit of an attitude problem. Still at least they lent me their spray paint".
Anyway, lunch was fine. I asked my friend to source somewhere cheap, easy and unpretentious. "You're going to love the inside of this place," he announced and took me to a grand-looking building in the centre of town. I did love the inside. It's curiously schizophrenic. In previous lives it had been a theatre and a picture house; there are chandeliers, balconies, sweeping staircases, a high ceiling and elaborate archways. That's if you look in a generally upward direction. At ground level, though, there's something more spit and sawdust about it. Tacky, even. I quite like that. We got a sandwich, side dish and a pint all for £5.99 and I was the barmaid's "sweetheart", "love" and "darling", several times over, which was nice, as she was quite macho.
Late afternoon I headed back to the Bus Station, following an elderly woman in a purple T-shirt. Groovy colour, I thought. Shame about the slogan on her back:
'Take back control of our country.
Vote UKIP'
I had to look away. Maybe she was the one who wrote 'KEEP AHHT'?
The bus got back at 5.30pm and I went to check the time of the last one onward to my village. Oh. 5.23pm. That's how it works around here. So I walked home, about four miles. I don't often walk those kind of distances, especially not in the rain, and especially not in heeled patent boots. Never mind, it was good exercise, I should walk more.
Mr SDS arrived home from work a short while after I did, carrying a strange looking device under his arm. "Yeah, the customer offered it to me - she doesn't want it any more and I thought you'd like it," he said with a smile.
"What on earth is it?"
It's a walking machine... Ha!
Still, I love it. I said I should walk more. (It's either that or get a dog. I mean, 'DO...')
* 'Silly Suffolk': a corruption of the name 'Selig Suffolk'. 'Selig' is an Old English word (also German) meaning blessed, happy, fortunate.
Labels: life, travels in east anglia


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Poetry survives in a prose-prone world, but evangelicals (and many others) remain phobic
In the past month, the Academy of American Poets launched a new page on its Web site devoted to poetry and teenagers. The page, labeled "Poetry Resources for Teens," is quickly reached by visiting poets.org and pulling down the menu "For Educators." The resources on the new page include "reading recommendations, writing help, spotlight audio and video recordings, as well as new ways to get involved in grassroots poetry projects," according to an Academy press release.
Describing the motivation for producing the page, the Academy's press release sounds much like what could be written by any American church or religious organization. The Academy acted, in its own words, in response to a recent survey they conducted, which showed that over 75% of the people who use poets.org share one characteristic: that they first developed an interest in poetry before their eighteenth birthday. With young people spending a reported average of 16.7 hours a week online, it seemed clear that in the long term, the best opportunity to reach new readers and writers of poetry is in their early years.
In pondering this news from the Academy, I thought again of the importance of poetry and the contrary disdain it experiences in American life and letters, especially among religious mover s and shakers, and in particular amidst the evangelical subculture.
I guess my real problem with this push to give teens access to poetry is that it further distinguishes adulthood as a time for generally disdaining and disregarding poetry as unimportant to faith and life in the twenty-first century.
We need more people like John Keating (the fictional English teacher played by Robin Williams in the film, "Dead Poet's Society"), who told his adolescent charges:
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for . . . .
(Alas, I use a movie to make a point about poetry!)
My wife asked me a trick question last week: "What language is spoken in heaven?"
"Probably Aramaic," I quipped.
If I had taken, as she did, any course in college offered by Dr. Thomas Howard (author of Christ the Tiger and subsequent others—see http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/authors/thomashoward.asp), she informed me I would have hastily answered, "Poetry!"
If that be so, it's clear to me that the heavenly language fights for a public voice in today's prose-dominated world. Oh, to be sure, poetry is available to any who hunt for it, but such a suggestion is a bit like telling sushi lovers in the Dakotas they can find their favorite food if they just search long and hard enough. Sorry, folks, but Fargo ain't Tokyo!
If poetry is the language of heaven, it still gets short shrift on earth, even among those who claim to be diligent advocates for life beyond our numbered days.
Case in point: Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of Christianity Today International, a moderately evangelical organization that counts as one of its founders the evangelist Billy Graham, recently ran a poll to determine if its readers still counted themselves as "supporters of the arts" in these disturbing economic times. I'm less interested in the results of the poll (Weekly newsletter, Jun 23, 2009) than in the way the question was framed:
Are you cutting back on spending money on the arts (music, painting, movies)?
Please note the limiting listing of the arts: "music, painting, movies." Poetry flies under the radar in Christianity Today's perception. In fairness, the survey accompanies a compelling argument by Canadian singer-songwriter Carolyn Arends on why the arts are important; although, she seems to limit poetry's influence to its aid in worship, comparable to icons.
In other contexts, I've chided Christianity Today and other popular evangelical publications for not regularly publishing first-rate contemporary poetry. One can look to Christian Century, Commonweal, First Things, and Sojourners to find a smattering of poets in religion journals, but one must look long and hard to find poets being published in the largest circulation religious magazine, familiarly referred to as CT. Among the magazines I've listed here, Christianity Today alone is without a poetry editor.
Almost a decade ago, an English professor at Houston Baptist University, Louis Markos, in a Christianity Today column of open commentary, called evangelicals "poetry phobic." In the ensuing years, the magazine has done little or nothing to address and attack this phobia. Even Books and Culture, Christianity Today International's intelligent and erudite collection of book reviews, does not have a designated poetry editor other than editor John Wilson, who often shows his personal appreciation of poetry but does not push for any regular publication of poems.
Let me be clear: I welcome poets.org's effort to expand the exposure of teenagers to poetry. What I'd like to see is religious publications, who often target teenagers as an audience to be addressed and assessed, spend more time exposing their adult readers to the rising cadre of fine poets addressing questions of faith and the dilemmas of life and theology.
If it is true that evangelicals (and perhaps other religious subsets) are poetry phobic, much of the fault can be laid at the feet of the journalists, essayists, commentators, and preachers whose words fill the monthly magazines and who too often show a disdain for the poetic voice.
Note: Anyone interested in fine contemporary poetry from a Christian faith perspective should visit the Journal of Christianity and Literature hosted by Pepperdine University at http://www.pepperdine.edu/sponsored/ccl/journal/. Another excellent source of such poetry is Image: A Journal of Art, Faith, Mystery at http://imagejournal.org/page/journal/. Image is closely tied to the Graduate Writing Program at Seattle Pacific University and to the Glen Writing Workshop in New Mexico.
Tags: Christianity Today, evangelicals, magazines, poetry, poetry phobic, teens
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